By Tosin Olatokunbo
Former President Barack Obama has attacked his successor, President Donald Trump of the United States of America, USA in the manner he has handled the corona virus pandemic in the country.
The former US leader has joined other state governors in the country to oppose Trump’s handling of the novel disease since January when the disease first broke.
Governor Andrew Mark Cuomo of the state of New York, particularly has been very virulent in his criticism of the US president.
Recall that President Trump has also said recently that the virus could kill over 200,000 persons at its peak.
Obama said Trump has failed to provide the leadership the world required at this time to combat the pandemic, adding that his administration efforts have been very disastrous.
Obama said in an interview with AFP that “What we’re fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy — that has become a stronger impulse in American life.
It’s part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty.
It would have been bad even with the best of governments.
It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset — of ‘what’s in it for me’ and ‘to heck with everybody else’ — when that mindset is operationalized in our government.”
President Trump has demolished major policies of his predecessor, most importantly the Obamacare which the administration has outlawed after coming to power.
